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LSC Student Jeff Jiang Featured in American Bar Association Video on Law Students and Pro Bono Work

The American Bar Association (ABA) recently released a video highlighting how law students can get involved in pro bono work, using the efforts of Jeff Jiang ’22 and other law students on a wide-ranging benefits ...
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Harvard Gazette: ‘Shadow Pandemic’ of Domestic Violence

Harvard Law School’s Marianna Yang examines rise in factors, hurdles in courts for victims By Liz Mineo | Harvard Gazette, June 29, 2022 Violence against women increased to record levels around the world following lockdowns to ...
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Fighting for Equal Treatment of Same-Sex Military Spouses

By Henry Beshar ’22 “But you’re not a veteran,” my puzzled mentor remarked after learning that I enrolled in Harvard Law School’s Veterans Law and Disability Benefits Clinic (VLDBC). “I’m not,” I replied, “but it’s ...
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June 23: “Lunch and Learn – Discharge Upgrade” with LSC’s Veterans Clinic and the Bob Woodruff Foundation

Lunch and Learn: Discharge Upgrade Thursday, June 23 at 12 pm ET | Register About the Event The Bob Woodruff Foundation and the Legal Services Center’s Veterans Legal Clinic are excited to convene national experts ...
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Keith Fogg, Clinical Professor of Law and Avid Advocate for Low-Income Taxpayers, Retires

By Olivia Klein, Harvard Law Today As a teacher at Harvard Law School, Keith Fogg says that he sees himself like the Wizard of Oz: “I’m standing behind the curtain, telling the students that they have ...
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LSC Tax Clinic Intern Eshika Kaul Awarded Truman Scholarship

Eshika Kaul ’23, who was an intern in LSC’s Federal Tax Clinic, was recently named as a recipient of the prestigious Truman Scholarship. Read more below about Eshika and her work assisting low-income taxpayers, and ...
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LSC Team Helps 200 Native Alaskans Get Much-Needed Tax Assistance

The tax issues faced by Native Alaskan tribal members are unusually complex. Those complexities stem not only from the area’s chief economic driver – fishing – but also from how tribes are governed, and the ...
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For LSC Alum, Service Comes First

Published by the Harvard Gazette on May 16, 2022. Tyler Patrick started planning a life of service when he was a boy. The past four years have given shape to that plan. A native of ...
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Public Interest Law: A Career with Impact

With an undergraduate degree in English, Sarah Atkinson ’22 was drawn to study law because it combined two things she loved: reading and writing. Her time at Harvard Law School has given her the opportunity ...
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Supreme Court Rules Unanimously In Favor of Tax Clinic Position on Whether Filing Deadlines Are Jurisdictional or Mere “Claims Processing Rules” that Can Be Tolled

Although the Supreme Court has been sharply divided on a host of issues this term, it ruled unanimously this spring in Boechler P.C. v. Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service. That ruling affirmed a position ...
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On Winning and Losing: What Public Interest Litigation Is Fighting For

By Stephanie Kelemen ’22, Domestic Violence and Family Law Clinic I lost my first appeal, and I am not sad. Over the course of a year, I put my blood, sweat, and tears into the ...
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When Perpetrators of Domestic Violence Use Civil Court System to Re-Victimize Survivors

By Madeline Finnegan ’23, Domestic Violence and Family Law Clinic While domestic violence is sometimes dealt with in the criminal justice system, more frequently it is handled as a civil matter disputed in Probate and ...
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